ClickOnce is a deployment technology that enables you to create self-updating Windows-based applications that can be installed and run with minimal user interaction. So in that case security is critical. ClickOnce overcomes the following issues...

If you are an Admin, you are going to need to understand LightSwitch. End users are going to wanting to use this in their simpler apps, what does that mean to you? Microsoft is launching the Visual Studio LightSwitch. It’s a simpler way to create...

First open the properties for the Project, this will open the properties page and then select the “Security” Tab. Now select the Security tab: The Permissions XML File will be automatically modified it you check the radio buttons “This is full...

Hey yo, let’s go! Hey! Yo! Let’s! Go! It’s time to take a look at the Imagine Cup projects and vote for the best projects! Get involved! Save the world! Sort of. Do it now, go to the People’s Choice award at: http://imaginecup...

One of the student bloggers determined that it might be a good idea to uninstall any existing Windows Phone installations before downloading and installing the Mango Windows Phone tools.
Word to the Wise.

The Facebook SDK needed updating for sometime and it is freshly updated as of 7/11/2011. Download and get started creating cool Facebook apps! http://facebooksdk.codeplex.com/ If you have questions make sure to go to the http://stackoverflow.com...

WOW! Use your knowledge of PHP with Azure by downloading this “fresh” (as of May 26, 2011) SDK. Windows Azure SDK for PHP Developers This SDK works with Eclipse as well as Expression Studio, Visual Studio, etc. So get to it and make some money!...

If you want to learn how to program graphics, prepare for work in the game industry, or just learn something new, download the latest directX SDK!
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=6812
If you are programming...

If you download any SDK this summer this is the one you should definitely download!
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bb980924.aspx
Professors
Use this to show how to utilize vendor oriented Software Developer Kits (SDK), this is a productive...

Blah Blah from site:
Open XML is an open ECMA 376 standard and is also approved as the ISO/IEC 29500 standard that defines a set of XML schemas for representing spreadsheets, charts, presentations, and word processing documents. Microsoft Office...

Link>>> Installing the Windows Phone SDK
Really do you need anything else? Just follow the instructions and you are ready to go.
Oh yeah, if you are a student go to Dreamspark.com and get signed up, you will receive free access to the AppHub...

MS Project is an important management tool that has only a small number of developers, so the opportunities are pretty good. You will need to own MS Project, and if you are a student or professor you get MS Project for free through MSDNAA. Once you do...

Head over to the Excel Developer Center and find out how to utilize the SDK to expand and simplify Excel!
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905411.aspx
Professors
Excel is widely used by managers and people who hire, having the knowledge...

Wow, is there a more ignored Office product than Visio? Yes there is, Publisher. But Visio is really cool and every time I show my stuff on Visio, everyone is impressed. Students can get Visio from Dreamspark.com for no cost, and professors can get Visio...

Is there a bigger secret than the Bing Map SDK? Even when you talk to people inside of Microsoft they don’t know about it. So let’s just keep this between you and me, apparently the marketers inside of Microsoft don’t really want anyone to...

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If you are reading this blog for the first time, which is likely, I usually keep them short and sweet. This is a “job hobby” for me, and isn’t really a part of my “metrics” at Microsoft. Usually I write in my blog according to the original version of Web Log, which was shorten to blog. This is a log of what I am working on and thinking about, so I deeply apologize for the randomness and weirdness of the blog. Please feel free to give me feedback. Although I do some self editing, and from time to time blogs will disappear when I suddenly realize that I didn’t do a good job of self-editing. This isn’t a book, or a structured discussion like many people write, it simply my working out ideas and that kind of thing. Jerry Nixon and others on my team do a great job of writing in structured ways. Sometimes I just feel silly or other times I need to post something for an audience and I use the blog. Blah, blah, blah.

I try not to do stream of consciousness, but it might seem like it.

I am employed by Microsoft and my boss would like it if I actually worked for Microsoft, but let's leave it at employed. And it is a great place to work. Lots of challenges, most of them intellectual, and the remaining ones the usual ones everyone has to face.

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